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The Force Leading to the Creator

934Question: As it is said: “Torah, Israel, and the Creator are one.” It is clear there are friends with whom we unite, and there is the Creator that we want to reveal together. But what is this force between us that we must attract so that it leads us to the Creator?

Answer: It is the quality of mutual bestowal of everyone to everyone. To the extent you can realize this quality among yourselves in the ten, you advance toward the Creator and become similar to Him.

Question: What does it mean to correct ourselves with the friends into the vessel (Kli) of Adam HaRishon?

Answer: It means to discover our connection in one vessel, in one ten, and from this connection, direct our desires for rising toward getting closer to the Creator. We want to rise to His level to comply with what the Creator expects.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One”

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What Is Considered Luck in Spiritual Work?

938.01Question: When the ten feels that it reached success, i.e., the state of “embrace with the Creator,” how can it return pleasure to the Creator for this luck?

Answer: To do this, one must rise above oneself and perform an act of bestowal with the friends. In this way, we create a state among ourselves where we receive the upper light for the sake of the Creator.

Question: If a person is rewarded with faith above reason, can this be considered luck?

Answer: Yes, this is also luck.

Question: Nevertheless, luck largely depends on the root of the soul, and the environment cannot influence success 100%, right?

Answer: The environment can influence a person, and a person can influence the connection of their soul with the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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Studying the Torah

528.04Question: When reading the Torah, we study the quality of bestowal and love. How can we attract this force upon ourselves while reading the article?

Answer: Studying the Torah is a multi-step process. Initially, we simply learn to read, translate, and analyze what is in our materials, replace words with spiritual elements and connections, and begin to understand what is really said. These are the conditions.

Question: What are these spiritual definitions that stand behind the words?

Answer: In Pticha (Preface to the Wisdom of Kabbalah) or in The Study of the Ten Sefirot, we study about them. They explain how the light coming to us from the Creator affects us, what desires it reveals, and how it connects us.

By reading the sources, it gradually becomes clear what happens to us during this process: what rises, what shifts, what descends, how we attract the light, how we open ourselves to the light, and what it does when it enters us.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/3/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “The Torah, the Creator, and Israel Are One”

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Is Fortune a Correction?

231.04Question: Is fortune (Mazal) itself a correction? And what does the correction consist of?

Answer: Mazal is not your success. Is it the result of our work, our efforts?—Yes.

But in principle, this is not a human action, but an action descending on us from above.

Question: The Book of Zohar speaks of the tears of the Creator falling into the sea and correcting it. How does this relate to the concept of Mazal?

Answer: This means that sparks (Nitzutzin) of reflected light fall into the sea (Malchut). Thus, Malchut gradually rises and gets corrected.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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A Building for the Creator

508.2This is similar to one who wishes to move a big building; of course, this is impossible. So what does he do? He takes the building apart into small bricks, and he can move each piece. So it is here: Through diminishing the light, one can make a small effort (Baal HaSulam, Shamati 202, “In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 2”).

Question: What does it mean to “move a big building to another place”?

Answer: Imagine that the Creator wants to give a person some kind of reward weighing 50 kg. But he is not able to hold it and bear it.

In this case, the Creator gives him small portions that he can take and carry away, take and carry away, until he collects everything that he received from the Creator in his place.

Question: What are we building brick by brick in the world of infinity?

Answer: The house in which the Creator will dwell.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 2”

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A Single Desire

935Question: Are our little requests that are combined into a common prayer of the ten the light we return to the Creator?

Answer: No, the light is not between you; you do not return it to the Creator. You act only to create one desire between you that is capable of receiving a little of the light the Creator wants to give you. And by this action, you delight the Creator.

Question: How do we feel the light of the Creator in the ten?

Answer: Like the desire to do everything just for the sake of friends.

Question: What action attracts more light?

Answer: Just to connect even closer with each other.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 3/1/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “In the Sweat of Your Face Shall You Eat Bread – 2”

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The Meaning of Luck

546.02Question: How do you distinguish between the concept of “if you did not labor and found, do not believe” and luck, which can come without effort? After all, luck is a gift from above.

Answer: In any case, we must do something to make such a phenomenon happen.
To exist means “to be loved in the eyes of the Creator.”
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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An Instrument for Revealing the Creator

625.02Question: How do we correctly reduce the light of Hochma to be above reason and to receive luck?

Answer: We must go by faith above reason, and in this way, we will merit the revelation of all knowledge. The process of revelation, however, is a Kabbalistic secret.

First, you must develop a desire for knowledge within yourself and negate the idea that you attain the purpose of creation through knowledge, and instead you focus primarily on acquiring the same corrections applied to the desire to receive.

Then, through this refusal, called reflected light (Ohr Hozer), you will attain true knowledge and uncover all that exists in nature.

The wisdom of Kabbalah is for this purpose, which explains that you must make a restriction (Tzimtzum), a screen (Masach), reflected light (Ohr Hozer), and gradually uncover the quality you wish to reach.

Question: Suppose a certain state comes to me. Should I say, “No, I do not want to receive this; I want to connect with my friends and through the connection, bestow to the Creator regardless of what is revealed”?

Answer: No, you should not refuse. From this desire, directed toward the Creator or His action, you should simply make a suitable vessel, an instrument for revealing the Creator.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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Merit and Luck

571.02Question: As is written: “Sons, life, and nourishment do not depend on merit, but on luck.” What does this mean?

Answer: This means that the results of a person’s efforts, aimed at having sons and other fruits of his labor, depend not on the effort itself, but on the influence of the Creator on those efforts, on how much effort a person puts into becoming a conduit for the upper light.

Question: How do we free ourselves of regret and suffering that the Creator rewarded us according to merit rather than sending luck? What should the correct prayer be?

Answer: The correct prayer is a request for the success of your friends and that you will hold onto them and rise together with them.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Weitings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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A Kli Corresponding to Luck

282.01The correct Kli (vessel), which corresponds to luck, is our desire to receive when a person understands where he is and in what form he can unite with the Creator and perform the action of the reflected light, which raises him in accordance with the Hisaron (deficiency) that he created in the Creator. This is how they connect.

Question: What are the merits that make the light of Hochma shine?

Answer: These are the merits of using the opportunity to place your Kli under the upper light, which will be able to receive the light of Hochma in the middle line.
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From the Daily Kabbalah Lesson 2/29/24, Writings of Baal HaSulam “Explaining the Discernment of Luck”

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